American · b. 1975
Curtis Sittenfeld is a bestselling American novelist known for intelligent, empathetic fiction about women's inner lives and the gap between private self and public role, author of Prep, American Wife, and Rodham.
Curtis Sittenfeld made her name with Prep (2005), a sharp coming-of-age novel set at a New England boarding school, and has since built a reputation for psychologically acute, highly readable fiction that takes women’s interior lives seriously.
She has shown a particular fascination with the inner worlds behind public figures and roles: American Wife (2008) imagines the private consciousness of a First Lady closely modeled on Laura Bush, while Rodham (2020) reimagines the life of Hillary Clinton had she not married Bill. Her other works include a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice (Eligible) and the story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It.
Sittenfeld is admired for her intelligence, empathy, and skill at illuminating the compromises, ambitions, and inner lives of women, combining literary substance with genuine readability.
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld's acclaimed novel loosely inspired by Laura Bush. Alice Lindgren, a quiet Midwestern librarian, marries into a powerful, wealthy family and finds herself, improbably, the First Lady of the United States — a sympathetic, psychologically rich exploration of conscience, complicity, and a private woman in a public life.
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